Word: boated
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CONCEALMENT AT TONKIN. The North Vietnamese PT-boat attacks on the U.S. destroyer Maddox in the Gulf of Tonkin in August 1964 were among the most pivotal and controversial events of the war?and the Johnson Administration clearly deceived the public about them. U.S. officials claimed to be unaware that South Vietnamese naval units had been covertly operating in the area shortly before the Maddox was fired upon. McNamara was asked at a press conference on Aug. 5, 1964: "Have there been any incidents that you know
...various Saigon governments, the non-Communist Laotian Prime Minister Souvanna Phouma, other U.S. allies and even the U.S. Congress were too often regarded as entities to be manipulated in order to accomplish U.S. foreign policy aims. Administration officials framed a Tonkin Gulf-style resolution long before the PT-boat attacks but failed to ask Congress for concurrence on what they were doing in Viet Nam. The State Department's Bundy writes of how Canada's J. Blair Seaborn, a member of the International Control Commission in Viet Nam, could be "revved" up to carry secret messages to Hanoi. McNaughton described...
...Irwin Miller, LL.D., philanthropist and chairman of the Cummins Engine Co. As a leading member of the Establishment, you do not want to sink the boat, but you are not afraid to rock...
...Though there have been setbacks for Harvard this year, the boat has rowed well, losing the Adams by 1.8 seconds and the Sprints by 3.6 seconds to the strong Navy oarsmen...
Meanwhile, Yale has won only two of five regattas, losing to the Midshipmen by over 12 seconds. At the Sprints six weeks ago, the Elis failed to make the six-boat finals. In the qualifying heat, the Crimson topped Yale by seven seconds...